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‘Midnight Flare’

Name:
‘Midnight Flare’
Seed parent:
‘Red Red’
Pollen parent:
‘Red Slippers’
Flower size:
average
Flower colour:
red
Type:

Harris

Year registered:
1989

This variety is famed for its very dark red flowers. Despite some satsuki genetics, this azalea is more similar to Kurume or Obtusum, but lacks foliage with a good autumn colour. It has been a good parent in hybridizing of new azaleas, in part of its genetically heterozygous for colour.

Links:
Azalea Society of America Database
Deutsche Genbank Rhododendron

Midnight Flare Harris azalea flowers
Image credit:
Carolyn Beck
Midnight Flare Harris azalea flowers
Image credit:
William C. Miller III
Midnight Flare Harris azalea flowers
Image credit:
Carolyn Beck
Hereditary Tree
‘Midnight Flare’
‘Red Red’‘Red Slippers’
‘Hino-red’‘Ward's Ruby’Andros x Parade‘Keisetsu’
Hino-Crimson x poukhanenseJames Gable x unknown‘Andros’‘Parade’
‘Hino-Crimson’R. yedoense var. poukhanense‘James Gable’‘Vittatum’‘Waraijishi’‘Ivory’‘Keisetsu’
‘Amoenum’‘Hinodegiri’‘Caroline Gable’‘Purple Splendor’R. mucronatumkaempferi x mucronatumR. mucronatum




Offspring:
‘Jim Thornton’, cross: ‘Midnight Flare’ x ‘Red Slippers’
‘Barry Sperling’, cross: ‘Haru-no-Hibiki’ x ‘Midnight Flare’
‘Betty Ellen’, cross: RBS-17 x ‘Midnight Flare’
‘John Brown’, cross: RBS-17 x ‘Midnight Flare’
‘Janet Miller’, cross: ‘Haru-no-Hibiki’ x ‘Midnight Flare’
‘Robert Thau’, cross: RBS-17 x ‘Midnight Flare’
‘Sarah Jessica’, cross: RBS-17 x ‘Midnight Flare’
‘HnMF1’, cross: ‘Hanatsuzuri’ x ‘Midnight Flare’

Partial Siblings:
‘Glendoick Goblin’, cross: ‘Red Red’ x ‘Johanna’
‘Glendoick Garnet’, cross: ‘Red Red’ x ‘Johanna’
‘Glendoick Crimson’, cross: ‘Red Red’ x ‘Johanna’
‘Red Panda’, cross: ‘Squirrel’ x ‘Red Red’
‘Autumn Fire’, cross: ‘Arabesk’ x ‘Red Slippers’